Class Public Space, Mobilizations and Activism

This UC aims to consolidate concepts and theories that allow analyzing the relations of communication, media, event, collective mobilizations and social movements with the Public Space, in their different approaches, and with the publics. For this, the theories of the Public Space are revisited, which will allow its problematization in articulation with the teories of social movements. One and the other acquire new shifters that must be analyzed from the point of view of the new media and the mutations of the communication with the digital action in network. Aimed at students oriented to research, the UC is a curricular space where they can measure and test essential concepts: Public Space, Media, social movements, activisms. Interconnected, these notions are presented as an unfolding of theoretical configurations apparently stabilized in the last century and which require new readings and discussion today, especially when viewed from the perspective of network activism.

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I Public Space 1 J. Habermas' theory of public space 2 Normative model vs. plural model and alternative public spaces 3 Public sphere, common space, communication, urbanity and public life, collective action, publics. The theories of J. Dewey, H. Arendt, R. Sennett, I. Joseph, C. Taylor, L. Quéré II Social movements and activism 1 Classical and contemporary paradigms  2 From pre-modern to modern movements 3 New social protest movements  4 From networked activism to inorganic movements 5 Challenges and limits of contemporary social movements III Public Space, Media, Visibility and Invisibility  1 Visibility and invisibility. Regimes of visibility 2 Public sphere, visibility and recognition 3 Visibility and invisibility in traditional media and digital networks IV Networks and Activism 1 Digital social networks and new forms of activism and public mobilisation 2 Modalities of media activism and digital network action 3 Re-appropriation of public space

The type of methodology adopted is theoretical-practical. using expository, demonstrative and active methods (research learning). The expository method is used to introduce and present concepts and theories, using the demonstrative when selecting and presenting case studies that allow for theories, concepts and their application. Empirical cases will be presented for analysis and discussion purposes. The expository methodology is heuristic in relation to the texts: the theoretical presentation will be alternated and crossed with discussion, critical analysis and debate based on the reading of previously selected texts

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